Tag Archives: race recap

Well, I said I’d never run the Red Nose Run in Birmingham again because of how badly mis-managed the 5k was in 2010. But seeing as the race has a 10 mile distance and it’s exactly 8 days before the … Continue reading →

After reading about the horribleness of the Hot Chocolate 5k and 15k (managed by RAM Racing, who joins my list with the 13.1 ‘Marathon’ Series of Race Organizers whom I will never again support in any way), I remembered I … Continue reading →

Alternatively titled: How NOT to plan a race! People all over the webernets have been calling it an “epic fail”. Carly called it a “total train wreck”. There’s even a Change.org petition attempting to get runners’ entry fees refunded. All of these … Continue reading →

Saturday, June 4, was beautiful. Gorgeous. We’d been having some seriously H-O-T weather here in DC, so I was afraid my relay team was going to get fried at the NorthFace Endurance Challenge (DC). Lucky for us, it was perfect! … Continue reading →

Hi! We're Susannah and Laura. We're sisters who enjoy running, traveling around the world, and just generally being nerdy. One of us is a huge trapeze fan and one of us loves baseball statistics. This is kind of our public journal. We both trained for and finished our first marathon in 2011.